Biology & Life Sciences

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Scientific American February 28, 2005 Gunjan Sinha	The Diet That Fits With the understanding that some diseases such as obesity are metabolic syndromes in which multiple biochemical pathways interact to cause complex symptoms, metabolic testing offers a way to gauge health over a lifetime.
Smithsonian March 2005 Doug O'Harra	A Puzzle in the Pribilofs On the remote Alaskan archipelago, scientists and Aleuts are trying to find the causes of a worrisome decline in fur seals.
Smithsonian March 2005 Lawrence M. Small	Child of Wonder Christian Samper's lifelong love of flora and fauna inspires creative new displays of the world's largest collection.
National Defense March 2005 Robert H. Williams	QuickBird Mapping the Ecosystem The Nature Conservancy has turned to spacecraft to assess biological diversity and the environmental conservation around the world.
Nutra Solutions January 1, 2005	Microbes for the Heart Food scientists have discovered lactic acid bacteria that have been shown to reduce blood pressure in animal studies.
Nutra Solutions January 1, 2005	Magnesium for Memory An MIT researcher says a study with rats indicates that magnesium makes the mature brain open for growth and change.
Reactive Reports Issue 43 David Bradley	Ibogaine Gaining on Alcohol Addiction Ibogaine has been used outside the US to treat addiction because of its known ability to reduce cravings for drugs of abuse and alcohol.
Reactive Reports Issue 43 David Bradley	Health Benefits of a Chamomile Lawn Chamomile tea has been seen as a medicinal cure-all for centuries, but only now have UK researchers found evidence that the herbal tea has real benefits in a wide range of health ailments from the common cold to menstrual cramps.
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Kevin Davies	The Galileo Code In searching 400 years of French-Canadian history for genetic clues to diseases among Quebec's founding population, Genizon BioSciences -- formerly Galileo Genomics -- is rapidly becoming the bio-IT company du jour.
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Salvatore Salamone	Strategic Insights: No Researcher Left Behind Many open-source and commercial diagnostic tools can probe a cluster's performance, but virtually all of these tools are designed for use by the experienced software developer. Now, a new crop of user-friendly cluster productivity tools targets the scientist/engineer.
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